{"id":14749,"date":"2015-09-18T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14749"},"modified":"2017-02-08T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:57:22","slug":"cutting-the-source-of-that-thing-that-daddy-always-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/cutting-the-source-of-that-thing-that-daddy-always-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting The Source of That Thing That Daddy Always Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday mornings, I often remind my children, &#8220;Es S\u00e1bado Gigante!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qicEKxzywns\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I must have seen a bit of it on Univision once in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Well, all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/entertainment\/ent-columns-blogs\/jordan-levin\/article35665020.html\" target=\"_blank\">gigante things must come to an end<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>S\u00e1bado Gigante, the quirky, iconic, 53-year-old variety show that has been a fixture for generations of U.S. Hispanics, will broadcast for the last time on Saturday night. As they prepared to say farewell, S\u00e1bado\u2019s beloved host, Don Francisco, and his followers looked back on their time together with nostalgia and emotion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started doing this when I was 22 years old, and since then, my whole adult life has transpired,\u201d Mario Kreutzberger (Don Francisco\u2019s real name), told El Nuevo Herald shortly before a taping for Saturday\u2019s show. Kreutzberger, 74, married, raised three children (including a son named Francisco) and had nine grandchildren.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as though I&#8217;ll stop saying it, but there&#8217;s no chance my children will catch it while flipping through cable in college and think of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday mornings, I often remind my children, &#8220;Es S\u00e1bado Gigante!&#8221; I must have seen a bit of it on Univision once in the early 1990s. Well, all gigante things must come to an end: S\u00e1bado Gigante, the quirky, iconic, 53-year-old variety show that has been a fixture for generations of U.S. Hispanics, will broadcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddy-always-says","category-life","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14750,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749\/revisions\/14750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}